Description of problem: Powermac G5 freezes after displaying the following information on the screen. Fans start blowing. Need to press power button to restart the computer. Last screen: [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00010000 -> 0x0001a000 CF000015 Setup Done [ 0.000000] [boot]0015 Setup Done [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 2 pages/cpu @c0000000003050000 s84608 r0 d46464 u131072 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 73637 [ 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: ro root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora_17_ppc64 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: -1, 32768 bytes) [ 0.000000] freeing bootmem node 0 [ 0.000000] Memory: 4519680k/4718592k available (17920k kernel code, 198912k reserved, 1856k data, 2952k bss 6656k init) [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=19, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=256 [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU umplementation. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:512 nr_irqs:512 16 [ 0.000000] mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC 1 " version 1.2 at f8040000, max 2 CPUs [ 0.000000] mpic: ISU size: 124, shift: 7, mask: 7f [ 0.000000] mpic: Initializaing for 124 resources [ 0.000000] mpic: Setting up HT PICs workarounds for U3/U4 [ 0.000000] mpic: - HT:07.0 [0x90] vendor 106b device 0053 has 86 irqs [ 0.000000] clocksource: timebase mult[1e000005] sift[24] registered [ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled smp_core99_probe smp_core99_kick_cpu smp_core99_kick_cpu done smp_core99_bringup_done [ 0.000000] PCI host bridge /pci@0,f0000000 ranges: [ 0.000000] MEM 0x00000000f1000000..0x00000000f1ffffff -> 0x00000000f1000000 [ 0.000000] IO 0x00000000f0000000..0x00000000f07fffff -> 0x0000000000000000 [ 0.000000] MEM 0x0000000090000000..0x00000000afffffff -> 0x0000000090000000 [ 0.000000] Can't get bus-range for /ht@0,f2000000, assume bus 0 [ 0.000000] Found U3-GT PCI host bridge. Firmware bus number: 0->239 [ 0.000000] PCI host bridge /ht@0,f2000000 (primary ranges: [ 0.000000] SMU: Driver 0.7 (c) 2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM Corp. [ 0.000000] nvram: Checking bank 0... [ 0.000000] nvram: gen0=268, gen1=269 [ 0.000000] nvram: Active bank is: 1 [ 0.000000] nvram: OF partition at 0x410 [ 0.000000] nvram: XP partition at 0x1020 [ 0.000000] nvram: NR partition at 0x1120 [ 0.000000] Zone PFM ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0x0000000 -> 0x0001a000 [ 0.000000] Normal empty [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFM for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory PFM ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00008000 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 PPC64/beta DVD How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Fedora 17 beta DVD in 2. Reboot 3. Press C after chime 4. Press <enter> on boot: prompt Actual results: Computer freezes during inital boot of Linux kernel Expected results: First Anaconda screen Additional info: Powermac G5 (late 2005) Dual core 2 GHz 4.25 GB RAM 500 MB SATA nVidia 7800 GT Actions done to solve the issue: - checked SHA256 checksums for downloaded ISOs - checked for burning errors - Specified kernel flags: text video=ofonly
Issue is also reproducable with Fedora 17 (final) DVD Additional actions done: - Run installer from Fedora 17 (final) Boot CD - Tried to boot installer with following kernel flags: nouveau.modeset=0 nouveau.noaccel=1 vnc - Swapped hard drives - Used different DDR2 RAM modules - Changed jumper on Superdrive from C/S => Master Unfortunately none of these actions solved the issue
Is this still happening with 3.6.9 kernels or the F18 beta disk?
Issue is not resolved. When I boot the G5 with the F18 beta DVD, the following is displayed on screen: [ 0.000000] DART table allocated at: c00000007f000000 [ 0.000000] Using PowerMac machine description [ 0.000000] Found initrd at 0xc00000000188000:0xc000000031e8060 [ 0.000000] Found U4 memory controller & host bridge @ 0xF8000000 revision 0x42 [ 0.000000] Mapped at 0xd000080080000000 [ 0.000000] Found a Shasta mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xd000080080050000 [ 0.000000] PowerMac motherboard: PowerMac G5 Dual Core [ 0.000000] DART IOMMU initialized for U4 type chipset [ 0.000000] bootconsole [udbg0] enabled [ 0.000000] CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core [ 0.000000] Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 9 11:20:36 MST 2012 [ 0.000000] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] ppc64_pft_size = 0x0 [ 0.000000] physicalMemorySize = 0x120000000 [ 0.000000] htab_address = 0xc000000198000000 [ 0.000000] htab_hash_mask = 0xfffff [ 0.000000] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.6.6-3.fc18.ppc64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.7.2 20121001 (Red Hat 4.7.2-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Nov 9 11:20:36 MST 2012 CF000012 Setup Arch [ 0.000000] [boot]0012 Setup Arch [ 0.000000] Segment table for CPU 1 at 0xc00000000ffe7000 virtual, 0xffe7000 absolute Then computer freezes, fans start blowing until I switch it off. I haven't tried booting with kernel 3.6.9 because I do not known how to test it. Is there a way to replace the kernel on the DVD with 3.6.9? If so, appreciate a quick how-to, and I will try.
Can you remove the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' parameters and possibly install kernel-debug to see if there is more information available on the screen?
I am booting the G5 from the F18 beta PPC64 DVD. The yaboot.conf on the DVD does not contain 'rhgb' and 'quiet' parameters. Pls. let me know if I need to anything else (e.g. edit some other config file in the ISO and burn another DVD). I booted from DVD using the kernel flags 'debug loglevel=7' but the information displayed is exactly the same as without any kernel flags (see previous post).
When I boot the G5 with the F18 (final) DVD, the following is displayed on screen: [ 0.000000] DART table allocated at: c00000007f000000 [ 0.000000] Using PowerMac machine description [ 0.000000] Found initrd at 0xc00000000188000:0xc000000031e02e8 [ 0.000000] Found U4 memory controller & host bridge @ 0xF8000000 revision 0x42 [ 0.000000] Mapped at 0xd000080080000000 [ 0.000000] Found a Shasta mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xd000080080050000 [ 0.000000] PowerMac motherboard: PowerMac G5 Dual Core [ 0.000000] DART IOMMU initialized for U4 type chipset [ 0.000000] bootconsole [udbg0] enabled [ 0.000000] CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core [ 0.000000] Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 12 16:07:38 MST 2012 [ 0.000000] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] ppc64_pft_size = 0x0 [ 0.000000] physicalMemorySize = 0x120000000 [ 0.000000] htab_address = 0xc000000198000000 [ 0.000000] htab_hash_mask = 0xfffff [ 0.000000] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.6.10-4.fc18.ppc64 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Dec 12 16:07:38 MST 2012 CF000012 Setup Arch [ 0.000000] [boot]0012 Setup Arch [ 0.000000] Segment table for CPU 1 at 0xc00000000ffe7000 virtual, 0xffe7000 absolute Then everything freezes and need to press power button to restart the system.
I believe there is a fix pending for this issue in the 3.9 kernel. I'm going to close this out as NEXTRELEASE. If you still cannot boot with a 3.9-rc5 kernel, please reopen and move this to the F19 release.